HI SCR205

Urges the State Board on Geographic Names to consult with community members who have direct traditional, cultural, and familial ties to Puna district when naming Fissure 8 and other volcanic features created by the 2018 Kilauea eruption.

Notes that Fissure 8 opened on May 5, 2018, near Luana Street in Leilani Estates and reactivated on May 23, 2018, creating a fast-moving lava flow that destroyed hundreds of homes, crossed multiple roads and highways, and filled Kapoho Bay.

Observes that the term "Fissure 8" is technically inaccurate because the United States Geological Survey defines a fissure as an elongate fracture, while Fissure 8 is actually a large tephra cone approximately 180 feet high.

States that Hawaiian language names for volcanic features can encode information about physical characteristics, historical events, ecology, geography, and oral histories, and that formal naming should come from local Hawaiian elders and community members rather than outside observers.

Requires transmission of a certified copy of the resolution to the Chairperson of the State Board on Geographic Names.